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...evening, the wan, sandy-haired one-time grade school teacher arrived at Bangkok's Suan Phlu immigration pen, to spend the night in a solitary cell. The day before, a judge in Boulder, Colorado, had issued an arrest warrant for Karr in the nearly decade-old murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the six-year-old child beauty pageant contestant. Soon after, a small group of plainclothes Thai and U.S. officers arrived at his shabby apartment, where Karr had stayed since arriving from Malaysia in June, on the latest of several trips in recent years to the Thai capital. Later Karr...
...that he wanted to speak directly to the media, and he was hustled back into the room. I found myself crouched directly in front of him as he sat at the table. His jaw was locked and his eyes darted as the questions began firing. Did he kill JonBenet Ramsey? Karr spoke slowly, his voice low and stuttering. "I was with JonBenet when she died... Her death was an accident." Other questions elicited silence, or pained glances. A "no comment" on his relationship to the Ramsey family. After a few minutes, he glanced upwards at his captors, and they quickly...
...sight of goal would be applauded off the pitch. That it isn't - quite - reduced to these depths is a mark of its enduring moral core and the complexity of the relationship between those who play the game and those who watch it. The former England manager Alf Ramsey notoriously refused to let his players exchange shirts with their Argentine opponents after the turbulent World Cup quarterfinal of 1966, describing the South Americans as "animals." Ramsey, it might be said, did not merely want victory: he wanted his men to demonstrate that they were better people as well. Here...
...Department of Justice refused to comment on the status of Lay's case Wednesday, and Lay's attorney, Michael Ramsey, did not return calls from TIME. But the consensus from lawyers is that, despite Lay's conviction, the case will never be resolved. "It's discouraging and unfortunate," says former federal prosecutor Michael Wynne. "It's not as if he got away with it, of course. We have a system in place to punish people. And to redress wrongs and to try to get money back for people who have had it taken away." But a lot of former Enron...
DIED. Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, whose still unsolved 1996 murder fueled massive media interest and myriad theories about the slaying, leading Patsy and her husband John to sue authors and news outlets that suggested they were the killers; of ovarian cancer; in Roswell...